Reading TED

easy diy projects for kid engineers ^R 6.101
matt ridley: when ideas have sex ^R 6.102
nic marks: the happy planet index ^R 6.102
charity tillemann-dick: singing after a double lung transplant ^R 6.103
heribert watzke: the brain in your gut ^R 6.103
eva zeisel on the playful search for beauty ^R 6.107
sophal ear: escaping the khmer rouge ^R 6.107
carol dweck: the power of believing that you can improve ^R 6.110
michel laberge how synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion ^R 6.111
what you need to know about crispr ^R 6.112
michael green: what the social progress index can reveal about your country ^R 6.112
rajesh rao computing a rosetta stone for the indus script ^R 6.112
vs ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain ^R 6.112
golan levin makes art that looks back at you ^R 6.114
daphne bavelier: your brain on video games ^R 6.118
tim berners-lee a magna carta for the web ^R 6.119
alex steffen: the route to a sustainable future ^R 6.120
stephen petranek your kids might live on mars. here's how they'll survive ^R 6.121
meg jay: why 30 is not the new 20 ^R 6.122
tim harford how frustration can make us more creative ^R 6.122
iain hutchison: saving faces ^R 6.124
ismael nazario: what i learned as a kid in jail ^R 6.125
salman khan let s use video to reinvent education ^R 6.131
torsten reil builds better animations ^R 6.137
emilie wapnick why some of us don't have one true calling ^R 6.141
alain de botton: a kinder, gentler philosophy of success ^R 6.153
alex kipman a futuristic vision of the age of holograms ^R 6.154
helen fisher: why we love, why we cheat ^R 6.154
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.161
rose george: let's talk crap. seriously. ^R 6.163
robert hammond building a park in the sky ^R 6.166
jessica shortall the us needs paid family leave—for the sake of its future ^R 6.168
stewart brand: 4 environmental 'heresies' ^R 6.170
rev. james forbes: compassion at the dinner table ^R 6.171
george whitesides: a lab the size of a postage stamp ^R 6.176
to raise brave girls, encourage adventure ^R 6.177
oscar schwartz can a computer write poetry ^R 6.184
paula johnson his and hers ¡ healthcare ^R 6.187
afra raymond: three myths about corruption ^R 6.189
peter saul: let's talk about dying ^R 6.190
jay silver: hack a banana, make a keyboard! ^R 6.192
geena rocero why i must come out ^R 6.194
robert swan: let's save the last pristine continent ^R 6.195
steven levitt: the freakonomics of mcdonalds vs. drugs ^R 6.202
sarah kaminsky: my father the forger ^R 6.207
vik muniz: art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string ^R 6.208
drew curtis: how i beat a patent troll ^R 6.209
joe derisi solves medical mysteries ^R 6.211
matthew o'reilly: "am i dying?" the honest answer. ^R 6.217
carlo ratti architecture that senses and responds ^R 6.223
justin hall-tipping: freeing energy from the grid ^R 6.224
anders ynnerman: visualizing the medical data explosion ^R 6.225
barry schwartz: the paradox of choice ^R 6.226
russell foster why do we sleep ^R 6.232
jennifer pahlka: coding a better government ^R 6.233
mitchell besser: mothers helping mothers fight hiv ^R 6.233
peter diamandis on our next giant leap ^R 6.233
aaron koblin ^R 6.234
milton glaser on using design to make ideas new ^R 6.234
markham nolan: how to separate fact and fiction online ^R 6.235
mitchell joachim: don't build your home, grow it! ^R 6.237
leana wen: what your doctor won't disclose ^R 6.242
jon ronson when online shaming spirals out of control ^R 6.243
ngozi okonjo-iweala how africa can keep rising ^R 6.243
sergey brin and larry page: the genesis of google ^R 6.248
michael anti: behind the great firewall of china ^R 6.250
robin chase on zipcar and her next big idea ^R 6.252
julian treasure: why architects need to use their ears ^R 6.254
aparna rao: high-tech art (with a sense of humor) ^R 6.255
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.257
sebastian junger our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war ^R 6.259
rosie king: how autism freed me to be myself ^R 6.260
jason fried: why work doesn't happen at work ^R 6.261
ralph langner cracking stuxnet a 21st century cyberweapon ^R 6.261
poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash ^R 6.262
paul greenberg the four fish we're overeating—and what to eat instead ^R 6.264
paul maccready on nature vs. humans ^R 6.268
david mccandless: the beauty of data visualization ^R 6.269
this is what democracy looks like ^R 6.277
john hodgman: design, explained. ^R 6.278
a visual history of social dance in 25 moves ^R 6.280
dave brain what a planet needs to sustain life ^R 6.284
kathryn schulz on being wrong ^R 6.286
how we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers ^R 6.286
phil borges on endangered cultures ^R 6.287
stephen petranek counts down to armageddon ^R 6.287
sherry turkle: connected, but alone? ^R 6.294
al gore the case for optimism on climate change ^R 6.295
dean ornish: your genes are not your fate ^R 6.296
murray gell-mann on beauty and truth in physics ^R 6.297
joshua prager wisdom from great writers on every year of life ^R 6.298
jonas eliasson: how to solve traffic jams ^R 6.301
krista donaldson the $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives ^R 6.301
guy hoffman robots with soul ^R 6.303
science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until i decided to study it ^R 6.312
ernesto sirolli: want to help someone? shut up and listen! ^R 6.313
parag khanna maps the future of countries ^R 6.314
ramsey musallam: 3 rules to spark learning ^R 6.319
sebastian seung: i am my connectome ^R 6.320
amy smith shares simple, lifesaving design ^R 6.321
ken jennings: watson, jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all ^R 6.323
fred jansen how to land on a comet ^R 6.324
tom honey on god and the tsunami ^R 6.324
virginia postrel on glamour ^R 6.324
why women should tell the stories of humanity ^R 6.326
cary fowler: one seed at a time, protecting the future of food ^R 6.327
danielle feinberg the magic ingredient that brings pixar movies to life ^R 6.328
robin nagle what i discovered in new york city trash ^R 6.328
what we don't know about europe's muslim kids ^R 6.330
suzanne lee grow your own clothes ^R 6.330
natasha tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure ^R 6.336
margaret gould stewart: how youtube thinks about copyright ^R 6.337
kevin slavin: how algorithms shape our world ^R 6.338
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.342
dee boersma: pay attention to penguins ^R 6.353
laura robinson the secrets i find on the mysterious ocean floor ^R 6.353
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.356
gary kovacs: tracking the trackers ^R 6.358
juan enriquez: using biology to rethink the energy challenge ^R 6.361
garik israelian: how spectroscopy could reveal alien life ^R 6.362
mckenna pope want to be an activist start with your toys ^R 6.363
yves morieux how too many rules at work keep you from getting things done ^R 6.368
chris bangle says great cars are art ^R 6.369
john mcwhorter: txtng is killing language. jk!!! ^R 6.370
hod lipson builds "self-aware" robots ^R 6.371
bill and melinda gates why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done ^R 6.372
emma marris nature is everywhere—we just need to learn to see it ^R 6.373
eythor bender demos human exoskeletons ^R 6.375
a better way to talk about love ^R 6.378
we can start winning the war against cancer ^R 6.380
joan halifax: compassion and the true meaning of empathy ^R 6.385
daniel goldstein: the battle between your present and future self ^R 6.390
ge wang the diy orchestra of the future ^R 6.392
samuel cohen alzheimer s is not normal aging—and we can cure it ^R 6.397
aaron o connell making sense of a visible quantum object ^R 6.398
gever tulley: life lessons through tinkering ^R 6.405
angélica dass the beauty of human skin in every color ^R 6.406
gregory stock: to upgrade is human ^R 6.407
aj jacobs: the world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited! ^R 6.408
sanjay dastoor: a skateboard, with a boost ^R 6.413
tshering tobgay this country isn't just carbon neutral—it's carbon negative ^R 6.413
juan enriquez: will our kids be a different species? ^R 6.416
yves behar: designing objects that tell stories ^R 6.420
bill strickland makes change with a slide show ^R 6.425
bjorn lomborg: global priorities bigger than climate change ^R 6.426
gavin schmidt the emergent patterns of climate change ^R 6.426
philip k. howard: four ways to fix a broken legal system ^R 6.426
david griffin: how photography connects us ^R 6.429
what a driverless world could look like ^R 6.429
marco tempest: a magical tale (with augmented reality) ^R 6.430
dame ellen macarthur the surprising thing i learned sailing solo around the world ^R 6.434
tom wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning ^R 6.436
maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) ^R 6.437
lee cronin: print your own medicine ^R 6.438
thomas suarez: a 12-year-old app developer ^R 6.438
sheila patek clocks the fastest animals ^R 6.440
taiye selasi don't ask where i'm from, ask where i'm a local ^R 6.446
bahia shehab: a thousand times no ^R 6.447
paul sereno digs up dinosaurs ^R 6.451
suki kim this is what it's like to teach in north korea ^R 6.451
kevin kelly: how technology evolves ^R 6.454
rives: reinventing the encyclopedia game ^R 6.454
elizabeth lesser: take "the other" to lunch ^R 6.457
christopher mcdougall: are we born to run? ^R 6.459
al gore: new thinking on the climate crisis ^R 6.460
tom shannon: the painter and the pendulum ^R 6.461
anant agarwal why massive open online courses (still) matter ^R 6.462
suzanne simard how trees talk to each other ^R 6.462
zimchallenge ^R 6.462
charles elachi on the mars rovers ^R 6.464
thandie newton: embracing otherness, embracing myself ^R 6.477
janet echelman ^R 6.480
alan russell: the potential of regenerative medicine ^R 6.482
ben katchor's comics of bygone new york ^R 6.482
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.482
bob thurman: we can be buddhas ^R 6.484
deborah gordon: the emergent genius of ant colonies ^R 6.485
tristan harris how better tech could protect us from distraction ^R 6.487
the unexpected challenges of a country's first election ^R 6.493
scott dinsmore how to find work you love ^R 6.497
marc goodman: a vision of crimes in the future ^R 6.500
nonny de la peña the future of news virtual reality ^R 6.503
anders fjellberg two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. here are their stories ^R 6.505
daniel libeskind's 17 words of architectural inspiration ^R 6.508
andy puddicombe: all it takes is 10 mindful minutes ^R 6.509
wendy freedman this new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe ^R 6.513
lawrence lessig the unstoppable walk to political reform ^R 6.515
daniele quercia: happy maps ^R 6.516
josette sheeran: ending hunger now ^R 6.516
drew berry: animations of unseeable biology ^R 6.518
your company's data could help end world hunger ^R 6.518
anand giridharadas: a tale of two americas. and the mini-mart where they collided ^R 6.519
thomas thwaites: how i built a toaster—from scratch ^R 6.519
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.523
elyn saks: a tale of mental illness—from the inside ^R 6.524
tania luna how a penny made me feel like a millionaire ^R 6.533
anthony atala printing a human kidney ^R 6.535
why i speak up about living with epilepsy ^R 6.535
jeff smith: lessons in business ... from prison ^R 6.537
rob reid: the $8 billion ipod ^R 6.540
stefano mancuso: the roots of plant intelligence ^R 6.542
every piece of art you've ever wanted to see—up close and searchable ^R 6.543
3 ways to fix a broken news industry ^R 6.547
sarah gray how my son's short life made a lasting difference ^R 6.547
michael rubinstein: see invisible motion, hear silent sounds ^R 6.550
el seed a project of peace, painted across 50 buildings ^R 6.557
yassmin abdel-magied what does my headscarf mean to you ^R 6.560
jonathan drori: the beautiful tricks of flowers ^R 6.561
tyler dewitt: hey science teachers—make it fun ^R 6.563
catherine mohr: surgery's past, present and robotic future ^R 6.568
machine intelligence makes human morals more important ^R 6.569
david keith's unusual climate change idea ^R 6.570
meaghan ramsey: why thinking you're ugly is bad for you ^R 6.570
art made of the air we breathe ^R 6.571
malcolm gladwell: the strange tale of the norden bombsight ^R 6.571
the interspecies internet an idea in progress ^R 6.574
casey gerald the gospel of doubt ^R 6.576
addiction is a disease. we should treat it like one ^R 6.577
mark ronson how sampling transformed music ^R 6.579
reshma saujani teach girls bravery, not perfection ^R 6.579
helen fisher: the brain in love ^R 6.580
sheikha al mayassa: globalizing the local, localizing the global ^R 6.580
dan gilbert: why we make bad decisions ^R 6.581
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.581
roxane gay confessions of a bad feminist ^R 6.583
salvatore iaconesi what happened when i open-sourced my brain cancer ^R 6.586
ziauddin yousafzai my daughter, malala ^R 6.587
eric sanderson pictures new york—before the city ^R 6.588
myriam sidibe: the simple power of hand-washing ^R 6.589
the future of money ^R 6.592
paul collier on the "bottom billion" ^R 6.593
dennis hong making a car for blind drivers ^R 6.594
it's time for women to run for office ^R 6.594
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.595
amy tan: where does creativity hide? ^R 6.597
barry schuler: genomics 101 ^R 6.603
jehane noujaim wishes for a global day of film ^R 6.604
molly crockett: beware neuro-bunk ^R 6.607
sherwin nuland: how electroshock therapy changed me ^R 6.611
ajit narayanan a word game to communicate in any language ^R 6.614
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.615
janna levin the sound the universe makes ^R 6.616
the beauty of what we'll never know ^R 6.616
geoffrey west: the surprising math of cities and corporations ^R 6.619
why curiosity is the key to science and medicine ^R 6.619
oren yakobovich: hidden cameras that film injustice in the world's most dangerous places ^R 6.619
frans lanting: photos that give voice to the animal kingdom ^R 6.620
lawrence lessig: re-examining the remix ^R 6.621
henry markram: a brain in a supercomputer ^R 6.622
brian cox: cern's supercollider ^R 6.624
what you can do to prevent alzheimer's ^R 6.624
ian goldin: navigating our global future ^R 6.630
simon sinek why good leaders make you feel safe ^R 6.634
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 6.635
peter norvig: the 100,000-student classroom ^R 6.642
olivier scalabre the next manufacturing revolution is here ^R 6.644
jon nguyen: tour the solar system from home ^R 6.646
rob harmon: how the market can keep streams flowing ^R 6.646
kevin stone: the bio-future of joint replacement ^R 6.647
bj miller what really matters at the end of life ^R 6.654
mia birdsong the story we tell about poverty isn't true ^R 6.655
islamophobia killed my brother. let's end the hate ^R 6.655
lalitesh katragadda: making maps to fight disaster, build economies ^R 6.657
marcin jakubowski ^R 6.657
robert gordon: the death of innovation, the end of growth ^R 6.661
catherine mohr builds green ^R 6.663
james stavridis: a navy admiral's thoughts on global security ^R 6.663
ngozi okonjo-iweala: want to help africa? do business here ^R 6.663
a queer vision of love and marriage ^R 6.664
jane mcgonigal: gaming can make a better world ^R 6.670
david brooks should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy ^R 6.675
mike velings the case for fish farming ^R 6.679
john wilbanks: let's pool our medical data ^R 6.686
laurie santos: a monkey economy as irrational as ours ^R 6.689
louie schwartzberg hidden miracles of the natural world ^R 6.689
kent larson: brilliant designs to fit more people in every city ^R 6.693
angela lee duckworth: the key to success? grit ^R 6.695
jeff han demos his breakthrough touchscreen ^R 6.695